Mindfulness/Meditation

A new clinical trial reveals that mindful meditation may help you kick your smoking habit — for good.

Strategies for learning how to eat with awareness.

Burdens from the past can linger, creating stress and anxiety today. Here’s how you can take empowered steps toward healing.

Four tips for a more thoughtful and positive approach to your next customer-service call.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is as effective as pharmaceuticals at preventing depression relapses, according to a 2015 study published in The Lancet.

Paid attention to your gut feelings lately? Maybe you should. Instinctive thinking is finally getting the respect it deserves.

How our most intimate sense of self and our use of money reflect each other.

Ten simple tips for making meditation a part of your life — starting now.

Instead of feeling like a failure when you fall back into old, unhealthy behaviors, consider embracing your relapses as mile markers on your route to success.

The influences of meditation stretch from head to toe, positively affecting your brain, heart, and immune system, and helping with chronic pain, insomnia, and depression. We’ve rounded up some intriguing recent research showing that meditation is a powerful ally for mind, body, and spirit.

The questions we ask can lead us down paths of discovery and delight, or down corridors of doom and gloom. Unlock the power of questioning with Marilee Adams' transformative tool, the Choice Map, and decide which path will you choose.

Are you being held hostage by your negative thoughts? Byron Katie and "The Work" will help you discover how to negotiate a truce.

A study published in Psychological Science shows that just 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation can be an ideal tool for helping you make decisions.

Don't hold back! Participate with enthusiasm: You'll have more fun, feel more present and discover a wellspring of satisfaction.

The authors of Blindspot show us how to “outsmart the machinery of our own hidden biases.”

Find it difficult to just sit with your own inner ramblings? Clinical psychologist Noam Shpancer, PhD, offers advice on taming the tumult and finding some mental peace and quiet.

Three experts offer tips for overcoming mental chaos and reclaiming a balanced brain.

How performing undemanding tasks can kick-start your creativity.

Learn how to stop self-sabotaging your diet with proven strategies to break bad habits, reframe negative food thoughts, and build lasting healthy eating patterns.